Hernán Darío Gómez: scuffle with an ESPN F360 journalist | football curiosities

Six months have passed since it became known that the Colombian National Team, led by Reinaldo Rueda in the technical direction, was not going to be able to obtain its ticket to Qatar to represent the country in the 2022 World Cup. A World Cup that is coming, and that unfortunately, the national team will not be in South America.

Brazil and Russia have already been left behind and the dream of playing in another World Cup has remained a simple illusion. It was not the best path for Reinaldo Rueda, since the Colombian National Team was unable to secure its participation in Qatar in November and December. The criticism was immediate, as there was talk of a national team that sinned a lot in the offensive zone by not being able to specify everything that it generated in its games.

In fact, they had a string of seven games in the South American Qualifiers without scoring a goal against their rivals, and in between that series of games, they lost one in which they could not give up points against Peru in Barranquilla. Edison Flores ended the Colombian illusion in the last minutes.

And it is that, against the Incas, Colombia had more than 20 shots, but of those only three went to the goal. Very little impact on the rival goal, and Peru took advantage of the only one they had to take the three points and seal the playoff spot, later eliminated by Australia in shots from the penalty spot. In a new ESPN F360 program with Antonio Casale, Pilar Velásquez, Lizeth Durán, Steven Arce, Víctor Hugo Aristizábal and Faustino Asprilla, there was a ‘fight’ between a panelist and the guest.

During the program, they spoke with Hernán Darío el ‘Bolillo’ Gómez, a strategist who criticized the Colombian National Team, which, according to him, was eliminated due to bad times, nothing more. Not because of the lack of definition, nor because of the leadership work of Reinaldo Rueda. Hernán, faithful to his way of being, had a grab with Lizeth Durán, who told him that the soccer players were clearly on duty.

Hernán Darío Gómez, who in the past left the Colombian National Team for alleged assaults on women, had a strong chapter with words with the journalist Lizeth Durán. ‘Bolillo’ began, “I want to ask everyone there a question. There are two soccer players there, and if they don’t agree with me, I’ll grab them there”, trying to call for humor. Then he said, “if you start to analyze, that they played well, that they played badly, that it is not the style, that they chose the players who are not, do you think that that ball that Borja had on the line against Peru did not want to put it, or the different games that Colombia had, which was always above many rivals, did not want to put it in?

And there he gave his explanation, “Colombia stayed not because of the players, but because these are bad times”, and there was a resounding “no” from Lizeth Durán. Hearing the expression of ‘Liche’ Hernán Darío Gómez said, “no, but what did you play then, if Borja scores that goal against Peru, Colombia will go to the World Cup”.

That’s where Lizeth Durán’s fight broke out, confronting him, “oh no teacher, I understand what you’re saying, and that’s fine, I didn’t play soccer, I dedicate myself to analyzing it from my perspective, from how I feel and prepare for it , but we can also find millions of excuses why not. So who are responsible for us being eliminated from the World Cup? Of course they wanted to go, of course they wanted to put the ball in, but it didn’t go in and what happened since the game so that this didn’t happen. It wasn’t just a game or a scoring opportunity. They were the consequence of several errors throughout many games in which Reinaldo Rueda and his chosen players were involved”.

Finally, Hernán Darío Gómez did not remain silent and told him, “no, I know, you prepare and read, and inform yourself because I see that you are very informed, but you have to be a footballer to understand this. There are three men there who are from football. And I know that you speak well and understand and everything you want”. In turn, he spoke about the work of the technical director, “when it comes to pointing fingers, we are the most handsome, if we are going to point fingers we are going to show that we did not do anything right. It’s not like that either and we have to finish off the players who were eliminated, no, that’s not like that”.